Pastor Haynes speaks on mass incarceration

0:23 I also want to especially salute our founder and convener, the Reverend Dr. Senator Raphael Warnock, for his vision, for his leadership, and for having to be omnipresent, not only serving in the Senate and as a pastor and as a gifted prophet of the gospel, but giving leadership to this movement. And so I salute him as he does the work that he is doing. Let me also appreciatively applaud the Reverend Devin Crawford. Thank you so much for your leadership and for your commitment to Christ that shows up in the streets and confronting those in the corporate suites. We thank you for your leadership.

1:21 Also, our co-chairs, we salute Rabbi Lydia as well as the Reverend John for their partnership in leadership. What a model they provide for us that I hope the nation will take note of. and follow. Thank you for your motto and for your leadership. And then I'm so proud of Reverend Tosca Medlock Lee. She is such a gift to all of us. And so I want to thank the bishop for her work and for her commitment to Christ. Now, I would be remiss if I did not give a shout out to to my amazing staff and team that has worked so hard to roll out the plush red carpet of Christian hospitality.

2:24 Thank you so much to each and every one of them. Our AV team has been absolutely amazing. My own chief strategist, Alicia Trustee, I want to thank her for her leadership and for her work. Thank you so much, Snoop, just the whole team. Thank you, staff, for what you have done to make this possible. I want to, I guess, begin. Deirdre, you are a gift. I want to thank you so much for your leadership and for your steadfastness. What a blessing she is. I dream I could tell Martin Luther we made it, but half of my black brothers are still incarcerated.

3:17 Those brilliant bars were broadcast by Ludacris. Ludacris, in the language of rhetoric, it's not just what he says, but what he does. As he says one more time, I dream I could tell Martin Luther we made it, but half of my black brothers are still incarcerated. Ludacris, what is he doing? He says, I dream, using the terminology most connected with the drum major for justice and peace, Martin Luther King Jr., and testifies, I dream I could tell Martin Luther we made made it. But then, in essence, he says a nightmare has captured that dream. And the nightmare is that half of my black brothers are still incarcerated. Using black brothers, forgive him if you please, for the pronouns recognizing that mass incarceration has now hit so many black women that we cannot exclude them from the equation.

4:32 And yet, I repeat one more time, Ludacris says, I dream I could tell Martin Luther we made it, but half of my black brothers are still incarcerated. You didn't feel Ludacris, so let me share with you the wisdom of Michelle Alexander, that groundbreaking work that, of course, she did, entitled, what was it, The New Jim Crow? And in the new Jim Crow, there is that luminous and lamentable line where Michelle Alexander says that racial caste has not been ended, but instead it's been redefined. It's come back in a new and more dangerous fashion. And so on the one hand, Ludacris tells us, I dream I could tell Martin Luther we made it, but half of my black brothers are still incarcerated.

5:27 At the same time, Michelle Alexander lifts up the system of racial caste that has characterized a nation that was born in the sin of a genocidal takeover and shaped by anti-black white supremacy. Here is Michelle Alexander saying that racial caste has now reinvented itself in our new Jim Crow, known as the mass incarceration of a justice system that is criminal and downright unjust. And so here we have these two statements. Of course, Michelle Alexander in The New Jim Crow does something brilliant in lifting up the system of caste. If you have not read the wonderful work by Isabel Wilkerson, Isabel Wilkerson has written about caste and said, if you want to understand this nation, just look at what caste has done, not just in this nation and in the history of this nation, but also look at what it has done across the world where a hierarchy of value values some lives more than others and then creates systems and structures that reinforce that value.

6:55 So some lives are seen as disposable and expendable. Some lives are valued less than others, and then a system is structured in order to accommodate that value system. And so Ludacris, on the one hand, has bars that reflect the hip-hop consciousness of a criminal justice system that is criminal and downright unjust. And Michelle Alexander leads the drum majors, the parade, the liberating parade, the emancipatory, no, abolitionist parade against abolitionist parade about abolishing mass incarceration. And so in light of the fact that we have spent these days lifting up the power of storying in a real sense, putting flesh and blood on what we are attempting to fight to end, I thought I would share with you two stories out of the transcript of my own pastoral experience here at Friendship West.

8:08 one I'm sure you know about, the other you perhaps have not heard about. I take you back. Join me as I journey back in time in this Sankofa moment to April the 23rd, 2006. I'm excited, energized with expectation because it's going to be my 23rd anniversary as the pastor of Friendship West Baptist Church. The anniversary celebration will take place in this facility. We had just moved in January 1st, and as a consequence, I could not wait. After all, my mentor and prophetic model and hero, Dr. Jeremiah Wright Jr., was going to be preaching my 23rd anniversary. I had spent the night before. Don't judge me. Listening to Richard Pryor in preparation for the Sunday morning worship experience, Richard Pryor, that comedic prophet or prophet was sharing his testimony after he had been hospitalized for literally setting himself on fire while doing drugs. And And while he was recuperating, Richard testifies that Jim Brown, the NFL Hall of Famer, perhaps the greatest running back to ever live, Jim Brown, a friend of Richard Pryor, sits with Richard in his hospital room.

9:36 And what Jim Brown does, arrest my attention, I share it with you right now. Jim Brown is looking at Richard. Richard, helpless in bed, looks at Jim Brown, waiting for him to say something, and Jim finally does. Jim says, what you gonna do? Richard Pryor is, of course, wrapped from head to toe in bandages, covering his burnt body, and Jim Brown says, what you gonna do? Richard Pryor is mumbling under his breath because he said Jim Brown's arms were bigger than his thighs. And so he could not say out loud his irritation that he was experiencing. And Jim said it again, what you going to do? Richard Pryor says at that moment he made up his mind, I'm going to try drugs one more time in front of Jim Brown.

10:38 Jim says, what you're going to do? That question, that query stayed with me, tucked me in bed that night. I woke up the next morning, April 23rd, the fourth Sunday in April, 2006, looking forward to a powerful worship experience, a wondrous celebration. I could not wait to hear Dr. Jeremiah Wright Jr. preach, but I could not get out of my head the base of Jim Brown challenging Richard Pryor with the question, what you're going to do? And as that hit me, it hit me it was also Sunday morning. I'm getting ready to go to worship, not to preach. So I had time to do what I normally would not have time to do. I went to the front door, opened it up, and there retrieved the Dallas Morning News Sunday morning edition.

11:36 I opened up the Sunday morning edition of the Dallas Morning News. I will not forget what I saw as long as I live. When I opened up the Sunday morning edition of the Dallas Morning News headline in language that shocked me, I know you recall it. It said unequal justice in black and white. There was a picture on the front of one Tyrone Brown and one John Wood. Both of them had come under the jurisdiction of the same judge. One Judge Dean. Judge Dean, my sisters and brothers, had sentenced. Here it is, John Wood, a well-connected white man to probation. even though he had admitted he was guilty of killing a prostitute, shooting her in the back, shot her dead, murdered her, and yet he was sentenced to probation.

12:36 While on probation, this same John Wood found himself guilty, here it is, of taking crack cocaine. He was even stopped while driving a state representative, Edwards Carr, in Waco, Texas, and he was found with cocaine and high on cocaine. And here is John Wood moving about free without any accountability. That's one picture, but it's unequal justice. Tyrone Brown, Tyrone Brown, my sisters and brothers, had been guilty of a $2 robbery. He and an accomplice had robbed somebody of $2. The person retrieved their $2. He was sentenced. He was put on probation. While on probation, Tyrone had a dirty urine analysis because he had been smoking marijuana. I forgot to give you his background.

13:37 Tyrone is 17 years old. Tyrone, my sisters and brothers, had grown up in a household where he had been victimized by abuse. Tyrone, my sisters and brothers, had dropped out of school at 17. He finds himself on probation. He has a dirty UA. Because of his dirty UA, he stands before the same judge that had given John Wood, what was it, probation for murder of a prostitute, then gives Tyrone Brown a sentence of life in prison for a dirty UA while he was on probation for a $2 robbery. That is the lead story of the Dallas Morning News. Now, you didn't shout because I guess you think that the Dallas Morning News is some flaming liberal progressive periodical in no way, shape, form, or fashion.

14:39 Is that the truth? The Dallas Morning News has an ugly history of being right wing And yet even the Dallas Morning News recognized how egregiously injustice what was taking place in the case. Here it is. Same judge. And yet there were different outcomes. Same judge. And yet we have unequal justice. One black and one white. And this was the front page of the Dallas Morning News. April 23rd, 2006. It's my 23rd pastoral anniversary. I go to church. Watch this. We have a celebration that I will long cherish, appreciate, and remember, and yet I am haunted. Here it is by the query of Jim Brown to Richard Pryor. Jim Brown says to Richard Pryor, what you're going to do?

15:39 I'm sitting through worship. We're praising God. Jeremiah Wright preaches one of the prophetic messages that characterize his brilliant homiletical ministry. And haunting my memory or haunting my mind is the query of Jim Brown. What you're going to do. Within the context of a celebratory worship experience, Jim Brown becomes my preacher. And I hear Jim Brown saying, what you gonna do? I'll tell you what happened. That night, I'm so restless. I call every activist and attorney, civil rights attorney I know. Call the leader of the Dallas branch of the NAACP, Bob Lydia at the time. And we convened a meeting here at Friendship West the very next evening.

16:35 And when we convened that meeting, the meeting was characterized by information about Tyrone's case, as well as information about what it means to be in prison. By now, 17 years he had been serving in prison. That meant that he had become institutionalized. And as a consequence, I'm learning stuff that I did not know. We organized, we strategized, and then the wind of the Holy Spirit began to blow, so much so that it became a national news item. Even 60 Minutes played a piece about the case, and so now the criminal justice system in Texas is on trial, and that became our objective to put the criminal justice system on trial, number one, to free Tyrone Brown, number two, ensure he gets a pardon, number three, and then bless him with wraparound services.

17:36 Let me tell you what happened. In less than one year, Tyrone Brown is released into our custody here at Friendship West and the custody of his family. Wait, I didn't even get to the shout part. The shout part is the governor of Texas, Rick Perry. I'm not talking about Ann Richards. I'm not talking about the governor of California. I'm talking about the governor of Texas, Rick Perry, who had tried to campaign on a platform of states' rights, and Governor Perry was politically put into a position where he had to issue a pardon for Tyrone Brown. Tyrone Brown receives a pardon, and then we took him in at Friendship West offering wraparound services, gave him a job working here at the church.

18:34 Tyrone Brown seems to be a success story until it wasn't. Tyrone Brown one day decided not to come to work. And when he didn't come to work, the team went looking for him they found him brought him back to work he worked a few more months until he didn't show up again and this time he said when the team went to retrieve him I quit I can't work anymore that meant it was my time a turn to get into action I go see Tyrone I say bro what's up he said Pastor Haynes I won't forget his words thank you for loving me and not giving up on me. But you don't understand. A part of me died in prison. A part of me still is in prison. Thank you for working to get me out.

19:28 But there's a part of me that is still in there. He said, pray for me, keep on loving me, but there's nothing else I want to do working at the church. my heart was broken I didn't know what to do we had worked hard to secure his release to ensure he got a pardon but Tyrone said a part of me died in prison Tyrone said a part of me is still in prison my body is out here but my spirit my broken spirit died in that prison 17 years Imagine that. He's 34 years old. A whole life has taken place while he was in prison. And he said, a part of me died while in that prison. Tyrone Brown. Crystal Mason. Perhaps you remember that name.

20:25 Crystal Mason, my sisters and brothers, a year was 2016. She had been recently released from prison after serving five years. five years for something she said she did and she served her time after getting out of prison she assumed her responsibility as matriarch of her family and after assuming her responsibility she gets her hustle on working as many jobs as she could and then it's election day I believe it's November 9th, 2016, Crystal goes to her local precinct to exercise her right to vote when they don't find her name on the roll. Crystal then is led by the precinct official to go and cast a provisional ballot that was never counted. Crystal Mason then was found guilty of voting while on probation, while on papers, and then Crystal Mason found herself in trouble.

21:29 And I found out through Minister Dominique Alexander of the Next Generation Action Network what was going on with Crystal. They invited me to be a part of the process and the protesting. And Crystal soon joined Friendship West Baptist Church. And then I had the distinct privilege of driving her to prison. as she went and served 11 months in prison for casting a vote that never was counted. And while she's serving that time, we are fighting outside. She gets released because of the fight that was going on outside. And when she's released, the good news is it seems like everything is going to be fine. March 28th of this year, Monday, Thursday, we call it in the Christian tradition.

22:27 It's Holy Week. And the district court in Texas rules that Crystal Mason is now free, overturning what had been done by the lower court. Everything was good until it wasn't. because in the last two months, the DA in Tarrant County has decided to use taxpayer dollars in order to appeal what the state court had ruled. Still going after a woman who's already served 11 months for casting a vote that was never counted using taxpayer dollars my sisters and brothers I dream I could tell Martin Luther we made it but half of my black brothers are still incarcerated that's what Ludacris says Michelle Alexander says that cast has not been undone. It's been redefined. It's been redone as it were. And so what we see in these cases, long before there was Khalil Gibran Muhammad's classic book entitled The Condemnation of Blackness, we see it in both the case of Tyrone Brown, not to mention the case of Crystal Mason, long before there was just mercy by Bryan Stevenson.

24:05 We see a criminal justice system that is criminal and downright unjust, and now we identify with Paul Lawrence Dunbar, who poetically proclaim, I know why the caged bird sings, I mean when his wing is bruised and his bosom sore, when he beats his bars as he would be free. It is not a carol of joy nor glee, but a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core, but a plea that upward to heaven he flings. I know why the caged bird sings, you have come to Dallas, Texas, and it is not an accident that you chose to come to Dallas, Texas, and I'm intentionally adding an extra S on the suffix. Why? Because of the jackassical policies that have resulted in a criminal justice system that has criminalized and weaponized the criminal justice system against black, brown, and poor white bodies.

25:10 I'm simply trying to say you're not here by accident. You're here because God has sent you here. God sent you here because revolution is needed here. God sent you here because it's time, watch this, to bring our collective stories together to result in a new Emancipation Proclamation. And with that being the case, I'm going to send us off by looking at a passage I've never preached before, but I could not wait to rush to it this week as I was inspired by the workshops, inspired by what happened Monday as I witnessed the relationship between art and revolution. I witnessed the power of storying and all of it came together and led me to Revelation chapter 21 and there John banished on the Isle of Patmos. Watch this. Please don't miss your shout. The empire was engaged in mass incarceration. John is now on Patmos. He is sentenced to life there on Patmos. And there on Patmos, look what happens. He receives a vision. And in that vision, that vision which is subversive, don't get spooked by revelation because of the right-wing interpretation determined to spook us into not really receiving the fact that Revelation in its essence is a subversive book that was using subversive language in order to get a message in an underground way to the rest of the Christian community. And so here they received the message of revelation and here's your shout right here.

27:04 I saw a new heaven and a new earth and it replaced the old heaven and the old earth and then there was no more sea and the new Jerusalem was coming down. I'm going to unpack that and let y'all go home. Look what John said and it's going to run you out of here. John said to begin with that we need to have a theology of abolition, a theology of abolition. What is a theology of abolition? It doesn't just erase what has been that no longer serves a purpose, but it also creates something that should and could be. I talk too fast because y'all miss your shout, a theology of abolition. It's not original with me. I wish I could say it was.

27:56 I heard it from Starsky Wilson. I heard it from Willie Francois. Also, they borrow it from what the philosophy of Angela Davis and another sister whose name escapes me right now. But the bottom line is, my sisters and brothers, that maybe we've come here to ensure we leave here with a theology of abolition. What does God have to say? Y'all didn't get it. Is that in the text? You know it's in the text. The text says, I saw a new heaven and a new earth. Listen, etymologically, I unpack the word new in the Greek, Devin. It's going to mess you up. The word new in Greek, there are different words that are used. One word has to do with new in, here it is, time. The other is new in kind.

28:53 Okay. New in time. I'll help you. My wife, Deb, she drives a fly Porsche. Porsche, they call it. Before that, she had another car that escapes me right now by way of what it actually was. But it wasn't a Porsche.

29:18 if she had gotten the same model, then that would be new in time. Okay, if it was what? A BMW 2006 and then she gets a 2024 BMW, that's new in time. But if you go from a BMW 2006 to a 2024 or 23 Porsche, that's new in kind. It's something you did not have before. And so when John says, I saw a new heaven and a new earth, it ain't new in time. It's new in kind. It's something we've never seen before. Why have we gathered in Dallas? Because we've gathered with a sense of abolition, abolition that is informed by our theology. Are you saying, Freddie Haynes, that God is about abolition?

30:15 Read your Bible. I like the book of Exodus, whatever else Exodus is. God did not tweak enslavement. God transformed the situation and abolished enslavement. Rabbi, I hope I got that right. God did not say, Moses, go down and tell Pharaoh to give my people greater accommodations in Egypt. No, you go tell Pharaoh to let my people go. That's my theology of abolition, that God abolishes systems of enslavement that dehumanize people. God is in the abolition business. So the question becomes, what is your theology? God showing up on the side of those who are oppressed, othered, and outcast. God showing up on the side of those who stand.

31:12 And this is Howard Thurman at a moment in time with their backs against the wall. Well, I'm at Friendship West. God's low loving the world that God shows up in the form of a baby born homeless in a manger under a death sentence of genocide by public policy. policy, escaping to Egypt in Northeast Africa where he is able to hide out, blending in with the Northeast Africa population, our sable-skinned Savior from the streets, then grows up in the hood in Nazareth. Nazareth is so hood that the Bible says when someone asks, can any good thing come out of Nazareth in response to the statement, we found the Messiah and he's a Nazarene because Nazareth was hood. It's so hood. If NWA was rapping in the days of Jesus, they would have dropped an album called Straight Out of Nazareth. Jesus then uses his ministry, ministry power, not in Jerusalem, not in Rome, not in Cairo, but on the outskirts of nowhere in Galilee, offering free health care to those who are having preexisting conditions, engaging in civil disobedience to bring about health and healing for those who are broken, offering those who are food insecure free food with the two-piece and five biscuits, feeding the multitude.

32:50 I'm talking about our Savior who then coordinated, no, choreographed a march on Jerusalem. That's what the Palm Sunday processional really is. It's a march on Jerusalem protesting the occupation of the oppressive Roman Empire. And after the march is over, he goes into the temple and sees the economic exploiters, the payday and car title loan owners. And what does he do? He pulls a parliament funkadelic and says, I'm going to turn this mother out. He gets lynched on Friday at the hands of the empire, is resurrected on Sunday with all power in his hands. I'm saying we serve a God of abolition. And if we get our theology right, we recognize that God is on the side of abolition. Let me give you this.

33:49 John, this is hot right here. I guess it's three years ago now this summer. We are fighting here in Texas against the voter suppression deal that was being passed through our state legislative bodies in Austin. pushed by Governor Abbott.

34:13 And so we protested in Austin and then went to D.C. This is 2021, August 2021, which is what, seven months after January 6, 2021. So we go to D.C. and there we protest. and when we protested in D.C., do you know I got arrested? This is seven months after January 6th. And y'all, I'm here to report that they actually arrest people in D.C. when you're engaged in protesting. Now, they did not January 6th, but they did in August. Y'all catch that next week. So I get arrested, and I won't forget what happened when I got arrested, because there are 300 of us who got arrested. Bishop William Barber, Reverend Jesse Jackson, and from Dallas, the Reverend Irie Sessions, Pastor Michael Waters, and we get arrested.

35:15 And when I got arrested, it was a trip because there were thousands with us, 300 get arrested. And the crowd that didn't get arrested is saying, chanting, this is what democracy looks like. I said, yeah. democracy is not a spectator sport you can't stand on the sidelines and complain about what ain't if you're not in the battle fighting for what should be and so when they said this is what democracy looks like I'm walking with with my hands in the in how whatever they had me in and and and then all of a sudden someone yelled wait that's pastor Freddie Haynes friendship West End Dallas. He's a preacher. Let's change the chant. They changed the chant from this is what democracy looks like to this is what theology looks like. theology not me espousing thoughts I've been thinking about God in some celestial ivory tower of academia this is what theology looks like not me discussing with my peers the greatness and grandeur and idea of an uncaused cause and an unmoved mover this is what theology looks like All of that is good, but they said not this is what theology sounds like, but this is what theology looks like.

36:48 Getting in the streets on behalf of those in the streets who were suffering and being willing to pay a price in order to overthrow oppression. This is what theology looks like. We've gathered in Dallas, but as you go back to your respective places, I got a word for you. This is what theology looks like. Theology looks like being the light of the world in dark places. Theology is being the salt of the earth. Theology is standing up for those who've been knocked down and cannot stand for themselves. This is what theology looks like. A theology of abolition, which, I love it, is fed by your, oh my God. Moral, no, prophetic imagination. Prophetic imagination.

37:46 John says, I saw. I saw a new heaven and a new earth. I envisioned. Wait, he's on Patmos. He's a prisoner in a dark space. and yet he's able from the darkness to envision the light of what could be and should be. It's a dark time. Let's be real. It's a dark time. I mean, a do-nothing Congress, a corrupt, bought-and-paid-for Supreme Court.

38:27 Our options at the top are interesting. It's a crazy time. It's a dark time. Project 2025 is a promise to dismantle the second reconstruction or the civil rights movement. Project 25 will ensure that the culture of carcerality that characterizes this country is enforced on a deeper level, especially if you are a political enemy of those in authoritarian power. It's a dangerous and dark time. But John says, you want to talk about dark? I'm on Patmos for a life sentence and that's when I saw a new heaven and a new earth maybe it has to get dark for us to see the light of divine possibilities of what the world needs to become Jeremiah Wright blesses me with this he says that if you have a cake you bake it pull it out of the oven and then it hits you oh my god I forgot to put sugar in the cake he says do you pour sugar on top of the cake no because the cake watch it has been constituted wrong and since it's been constituted wrong you cannot pour on top of it and hope to and hope to make up for the bad constitutionality of the cake. You have to re-bake the cake. And when you re-bake the cake, here it is, I'm about done. When you re-bake the cake, you make sure all of the ingredients are included so that all can enjoy that cake. Listen, I got to be real. The cake of

40:34 the United States of America, it's been badly constituted. It was badly constituted, born in the sin of a genocidal takeover, badly constituted, shaped by anti-black white supremacy, badly constituted. Women were seen as second-class citizens at best, badly constituted. Only wealthy landowners were considered worthy of citizenship in this country, badly constituted. What are we going to do? Keep pouring sugar? No, baby baba. We as people of faith have to see a new heaven and a new earth. Y'all didn't get it. We're calling for a new United States of America. It's time for a new Washington, D.C., a new Detroit, a new Dallas, a new Houston, a new Harlem, a new New York, a new San Francisco.

41:31 It's time to make this thing brand new. Who's going to leave here asking God for a vision of a new United States of America? Because until we have a new United States, we're going to have the same old system. It's time to rebake the cake. I got to quit. This got good to me. Can I give you one more? My last piece is this, and that is, oh, I love this part, an underground coalition. Prophetic imagination, an underground coalition, and all of it comes from what? A new heaven and a new earth, which basically says that we have the determination to do something new. Here's what happens.

42:26 Don't forget, I love this. Devin, I'm done. But this is revelation. How do we get it from Patmos with the empire running everything and now it's in your Bible? How did it happen? Because as Renita Weems, that amazing womanist scholar says that all of Scripture is underground literature. I got to connect the dots because you didn't shout. Why? Because every audience that received our sacred biblical text, according to Jerome Ross. Jerome Ross, another biblical scholar, he says every audience found themselves under one of six oppressions. Egyptian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, Grecian, Roman. All of them under oppression and yet they receive sacred text that now form our Bible.

43:32 And the shout is, how did it happen? It's because it was passed through an underground connection. And y'all, it hit me. If we are going to end mass incarceration, maybe it's time for a remixing of the underground railroad of the 18th and 19th century and come together and form a connection. Y'all are not shouting, so I guess I'm not coming through. a remixing of the Underground Railroad. What was the Underground Railroad? The Underground Railroad was churches and abolitionists that formed this connection that the empire was unaware of. And this coalition formed this connection. And before you know it, persons who are escaping from enslavement, They knew where they could go for direction and food and refreshment.

44:35 And as a consequence, it was because of a connection of churches and abolitionists and organizations who said we may not all look alike, we don't even think alike, we may not worship alike, but we believe in a God of justice. We believe in freedom. We believe in liberty and justice for all. We believe in humanizing all of God's children. And whenever you humanize all of God's children, then you form coalition and connection with others who may not look like you, think like you, worship God like you, but they recognize that we were created in the image and likeness of God and we come together. Okay, okay, okay, okay. This is it.

45:31 Zoran Kierkegaard talks about the mythical duck kingdom. And in the mythical duck kingdom, duck church gathers for worship. They have a powerful time. The duck choir quacked songs of praise. Pastor duck preached a powerful sermon. the duck pastor preached a sermon with three points I give them to you and I'm done point one he told them you were ducks he told them about the glory of being created in the image and likeness of the great duck god enhancing their duck esteem point two you have wings and he unpacked anatomically the power of wings and then he closed out with a celebration you can fly several ducks united with the duck church during the invitation then after the benediction closing prayer pastor duck stood at the back of the church to greet all of the ducks they shook wings thanking pastor duck pastor duck you told us we are ducks we have wings We can fly.

46:52 And then they all walked home. We've had a powerful week. Three game-changing days of enlightening information, powerful storying. What you gonna do?